http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/255Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016An Act to make new provision relating to persons who lack capacity; to make provision about the powers of criminal courts in respect of persons with disorder; to disapply Part 2 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 in relation to persons aged 16 or over and make other amendments of that Order; to make provision in connection with the Convention on the International Protection of Adults signed at the Hague on 13th January 2000; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2022-07-25Expert Participation2022-04-01 Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016s. 285(2)(a)-(c)Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022Sch. 3 para. 77(b)s. 160(1) PART 11 CHAPTER 12551This section applies if it appears to the Department that the conditions for removal to Scotland are met in the case of a person (“P”) who is detained in a hospital in circumstances amounting to a deprivation of liberty in pursuance of an authorisation under paragraph 15 of Schedule 1.2The Department may authorise P's removal to Scotland and may give any necessary directions for P's conveyance there.3The conditions for removal to Scotland are that—aP lacks capacity in relation to the question whether he or she should be removed to Scotland;bit would be in P's best interests to remove P to Scotland; andcarrangements have been made—ifor admitting P to a hospital in Scotland in which care or treatment which is appropriate in P's case is available for P; oriiwhere P is not to be admitted to a hospital, for P's detention in hospital in Scotland to be authorised by virtue of the 2003 Act.4Where P is removed from Northern Ireland under this section, the authorisation ceases to have effect—awhen P is duly received into a hospital in Scotland; orbwhere P is not received into a hospital but P's detention in hospital is authorised by virtue of the 2003 Act, when P's detention is so authorised.5In subsections (3)(c) and (4) “hospital” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Act.